Jamey Sheridan Quotes
I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game?
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As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
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I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.
